Custer chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, Black Hills, D.T. [S.D.]) 1880-1890, 1887-02-19
NORTHWESTERN ITEMS.


Arlington isto have q creamery.
The Steele Herald has suspended.
White Lake claims $50 inhabitants.
A kerosene oil famine has struck Glendale.
The Indebtedness Of Lawrence county 10
$3.50, 900.
An Odd Fellows lodge is being organized at
Rimball.
Turner county is 3d., 900 In debt and has no
court house.
Snow is two feet deep on the level in Camp
pell county.
Judge Trip will open court in Brule county
on the 22d inst.
Grafton is poorly lighted, by inattention Of
the lamp lighter.
weasels are thick in Sioux Falls and fatten-
ing on chickens.
Last weeks treasure coach from Deadwood
contained $4,000.
It Is reported that water sells at Gettysburg
at % cents a barrel.
The German Catholics OF Yankton are plan
ming to build a church.
The public schools OF Woonsocket have an
enrolment of 160 scholars.
The First National bank of Rapid City has
increased its surplus $4,000.
Custer City claims to be one OF the most
healthy towns I'm the territory.
Sportsmen Of Tyndall and Bon Hoiome en-
ioyed a wolf hunt the other day.
A $40, 900 stock company has been organ
lied at Lisbon to run a creamery.
Unjust discrimination In water rates are be-
ing complained Of at Rapid City.
About one-half of Lawrence county taxes
for 1886, $4,000, have been collected.
Rapid City win soon enjoy the convenience
Of a regularly chartered omnibus line.
DIR. Mckinney, one Of the first settlers at
DeaewcJd, recently died at Hot Springs.
Tie Kimbar aremen will have a fair, com
mencing on the 10th and lasting three days.
The late storm In the Hills destroyed the
use Of the telegraph service for several hours.
The children OF Huron are suffering with
what the local physicians call "a general In
Huenza.n
The pcnitentiary at Bismarck is filing up
eo fast that but three empty cells remained
on the 4th inst.
The Seventh Day Advcntists have twenty-five
churches In the territory and a good sized
membership.
The Grafton Herald entered volume five on
the 3D. inst. 1t has become the property Of
Ed. G. Kley.
The Buffalo Gap fire department has been
reorganized, and is claimed to be ia better
shape than ever.
The Water Works company OF Sioux Falls
supplies over $4,000 worth of water yearly to
the citizens OF that city.
Baled hay was an unknown curiosity at
Sioux Falls up to the sth inst, when a cargo
was offered for sale there.
Lincoln county has $4,000 in its treasury,
a fine court house and a quarter section OF
land suitable for a poor farm.
T. w. Blowfeld, the publisher Of ECHOES
of the Sioux" is about to start An overall
and shirt factory in Sioux Falls.
A f~our.months-old town Is Deloraine, n few
miles north OF Bottinean. 1t has over 100
houses, seven stores, four hotels, and six
stables.
FCrieroy and Wheeler, tive Morton county
ri b.rds, broke Jail on the 1st inst. aud were
rerAatured two miles from Bismarck on
ri.
A shooting scrape occurred at Rapid City
on the 7th inst. between a couple Of darkies
and Robert Graves was hit in the knee with q
bullet.
Two grand larceny victims from Yankton,
named John Sharp and VIM. Brock, were dis
charged from the Sioux Falls penitentiary on
the Sth inst.
The Indians are surely becoming ciyihzad.
UP in Bangor, the other day, a gang OF
sauaws brought coal into town and traded IL
for corsets,
Dogs are reported SO thick and plenty st
Aberdeen as TO make life dangerous 10 every
pedestrian who hazards a too sudden turn o!
a street corner.
A 5000 fire NJ Rapid City Oh the 4th inst.
caused n Sc, 600 loss Of stock by damage from
water. The stock and building belonged to
Felix Poznansky.
Mclean county is agitatiDg the idea OF
funding its outstanding indebtedness by
fine issuance Of bounds at ~ TO 5 per cent.
iaterest. It's outstanding debt amounts to
SIS, O09.
Editor Buchanan, of the Sioux Falls Leader,
has decided to accept the position OF clerk Of
committee on bankina, and is now at Bis
marck dischargiug his duties. His son will
manage the paper in his absence.
A Bismarck correspondent of the Fargo
Argus says the past week has been
a hard one on coal. In one day twelve
were burned at the capitol, while the
Sheridan house got away with seven tons.
There are many abandoned shafts on the
hill between Lead, Terraville, and Central
filed with snow, herce unnoticable. People
passing to and fro, unless they keep in the
beaten path, are liable to drop into one of the
man.traps and woe unto them IL travelling
alone.
Mr.. Wolzmuth, OF Lawrence county, went
into Spear1sh two or three years ago a poor
man, having been overtaken by misfortunes.
lie purchased the only foring mill there on
credit, succeeded in obtaining a large stock of
wheat. commenced making -four and put his
prices up to some $40 a barrel. He succeeded,
and to-day has the reputation OF being one of
the wealthiest men IN the house, having, III il
said, about $4,000 worth of property.